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Agriculture

  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
    EU economy
    The Big Read. The EU’s soft underbelly: trade, subsidies and agribusiness

    The model of political protection and heavy subsidies that has long supported European agriculture might be fracturing

    3 hours ago
    A protester adds hay to a large fire during a nighttime farmers' demonstration, with a crowd and a neoclassical building in the background.
  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    Canadian economy
    Canada’s beef producers say Mercosur trade deal will devastate industry

    Farmers fear a flood of cheap meat as Carney government looks for entry to South American bloc

    Cattle graze on green pasture with snowy mountains in the background near Cardston, Alberta.
  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    Energy sector
    UAE fertiliser giant resorts to trucks to shift product out of Gulf

    Abu Dhabi’s Fertiglobe switches to land cargo to avoid Strait of Hormuz as soaring prices allow it to shoulder extra costs

    Workers lift and pour fertiliser bags into a tank at an irrigation centre on a wheat farm in Sharjah, UAE.
  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    Agricultural commodities
    Lex. The land of milk and no money: UK farmers are in a fix

    Prices are falling due to a glut, yet the costs of feed, fertilisers and fuel are rising

    Premium content
    A close-up view of a dairy cow’s face, focusing on its nose and mouth, with other cows visible in the background.
  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    Global trade
    Iran war withers Kenya’s roses and strands its tea

    Conflict has crushed Gulf markets and pushed up air freight and shipping costs

    Belinda Wanjala harvests red roses in a field, holding a bouquet and wearing gloves and a headscarf.
  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    Food security
    Is China decoupling on food?

    If this is pursued with the same energy as industrial policy, it will upend the agricultural economy

    Adam Tooze
    Harvesters working in golden wheat fields with dust trails at sunset near the Yellow River tidal flats.
  • Wednesday, 29 April, 2026
    Environment
    Wild Scottish salmon catch drops by 40% in one year

    New data highlights ‘extremely concerning’ decline in fish population

    Wild salmon leaping out of water while swimming upstream.
  • Monday, 27 April, 2026
    Bayer AG
    US Supreme Court appears split on safety labels for Bayer weedkiller Roundup

    Case has emerged as one of the biggest ongoing multibillion-dollar corporate tort claims

    Protesters hold signs reading “No liability protection from pesticides” and “Stop poisoning us” outside the US Supreme Court.
  • Friday, 24 April, 2026
    Agricultural commodities
    Green fertiliser project challenges industry’s reliance on natural gas

    UK-listed Atome to develop project in Paraguay that uses hydropower to replace need for fossil fuel

  • Thursday, 23 April, 2026
    Agricultural production
    US farmers reel from spiralling prices due to Iran war

    Conflict has hit fertiliser costs in an agricultural sector already reeling from Trump’s trade war

    John Yeley stands with hands in pockets on his farm, with large farm equipment in the background.
  • Thursday, 23 April, 2026
    EU fishing
    Brussels set to lure Iceland into EU with fishing policy exceptions

    More flexibility over contentious marine issue with Reykjavik could tempt other ‘like-minded’ countries to join bloc

    A harbour employee shovels ice over fish at a dock, with a large fishing boat labeled "STEFNIR IS 28" in the background.
  • Tuesday, 21 April, 2026
    Food security
    Hormuz disruption raises risk of global food shock, traders warn

    World ‘on borrowed time’ to avert crisis as higher gas prices squeeze fertiliser production

    A truck containing bags of fertiliser at an agro-chemical plant in northern Germany
  • Tuesday, 21 April, 2026
    Agricultural production
    The US cattle industry is eating its own tail

    From rising temperatures to water shortages, ranchers need to be thinking about a plan B

    Stephanie Walton
  • Saturday, 18 April, 2026
    The Weekend Essay
    The coming global food crisis

    Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

    Wheat stalks illuminated by bright artificial lights in a dark field, with trees faintly visible in the background.
  • Friday, 17 April, 2026
    Middle East war
    UK farmers face tough choices as war pushes up costs

    Fertiliser and fuel prices have risen against a backdrop of depressed wheat and milk markets

    A tractor spreads nitrogen fertiliser across a green field of winter wheat.
  • Wednesday, 15 April, 2026
    Food & Beverage
    Israeli start-up makes world’s first lab-grown chocolate bar

    Mondelez-backed Celleste Bio says its ‘cell-cultured’ cocoa butter is identical to traditional product

    Several pieces of a lab-grown Celleste Bio chocolate bar arranged in three rows on a light blue background.
  • Tuesday, 31 March, 2026
    UK agriculture
    UK growers warn of cucumber and tomato shortages as gas prices surge

    Producers caution about empty shelves if supermarkets do not raise prices to help offset costs linked to Iran war

    Clusters of ripening tomatoes in shades of red and green growing on vines inside a greenhouse.
  • Monday, 30 March, 2026
    Agricultural production
    Lex. Iran shocks make their way inexorably to the grocery aisle

    Fertiliser is another casualty of the closed Strait of Hormuz

    Premium content
    Large machinery and conveyor belts move and sort white urea fertiliser, with workers in safety gear overseeing operations at the dock.
  • Friday, 27 March, 2026
    Global Economy
    Alphaville. Inflation hits the stomach, again

    Hormuz shutdown goes against the grain

  • Friday, 27 March, 2026
    Food security
    The Big Read. The global food crisis unleashed by the war

    From Minnesota to Punjab, fertiliser costs are up and harvests are set to be hit

    Aerial view of farmers spreading out paddy rice to dry
  • Thursday, 26 March, 2026
    Agricultural commodities
    Fertiliser price surge due to Iran war coincides with US planting season

    Donald Trump set to meet with top industry figures in critical political constituency

    A tractor pulls a large planter, creating parallel rows in a brown field while planting corn seed.
  • Thursday, 26 March, 2026
    Chinese economy
    Chinese pig prices lowest in 16 years

    Pork prices are also plummeting after hog farmers dramatically expanded production

    Several pigs stand in individual pens at an indoor pig farm, with some eating from troughs.
  • Tuesday, 24 March, 2026
    Commodities
    Hormuz fertiliser block will upend world’s food production

    Any ceasefire negotiations must include a humanitarian carve-out for such shipments

    Chris Krebs
    Cargo ships travel through the Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz, with hazy skies and choppy water in the foreground.
  • Monday, 23 March, 2026
    FT Globetrotter
    Memo from Paris: controversy and gastronomy at France’s biggest farm show

    Despite the absence of cows this year due to disease concerns, the annual Salon International de l’Agriculture still dazzled with other livestock, as well as the finest regional flavours

    Several light-coloured sheep close together eating hay at the Salon International de l’Agriculture.
  • Monday, 23 March, 2026
    Food security
    Piles of wheat and canned food stuck in transit as Iran war disrupts aid

    UN World Food Programme says millions more people may be pushed into acute hunger if disruption continues

    People walk past sacks and boxes of food aid distributed by the World Food Programme in a sandy outdoor area.
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